Girl Reading : A Novel (Paperback)

from infjsarah

Rather to my surprise I quite enjoyed this book. It's a book about art and female experience rather than about reading - reading is the slight thread that binds them all. Liked the first story the best and the modern day story the least. Guess the author is getting at the idea of art and reading ...

from CommutingBookWorm

Girl Reading by Katie Ward The Blurb on the back tells us: An Orphan poses nervously for a Renaissance maestro in Medieval Siena, and an artist servant girl in 17th century Amsterdam snatches a moment away from her work to lose herself in tales of knights and battles. In a Victorian photography s...

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In Girl Reading, a debut novel, Katie Ward paints seven portraits of girls reading—their lives, their conflicts, their passions, their griefs. The author's prose is rich, her syntax spare, exact, sometimes provocative, often surprising, usually delightful. From the start we are caught up in the ...

from rmckeown

I love calendars. We have them in nearly every room, but my favorite is a series we have had for the last eight years: Reading Women. Each month features portraits of women from various times and places - all with a book in their hands. Recently, I learned of a novel, Girl Reading by Katie Ward, ...

from nicx27

I had high hopes for this book. I love books about books and reading, so this seemed to really fit the bill. It basically consists of seven individual stories, from seven different times (including the future) and all the stories have a link to pictures of women reading. That appears to be the on...